1st May 2019
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A Tellytrack presenter’s recent question in a post-race winner’s interview to trainer Ivan van Wyk regarding his training from Yellow Star Stud in Mooi River was met with a polite response
The former Maritzburg College student says his victory on the 50-1 Camphoratus in the HSH Princess Charlene of Monaco Gr1 Empress Club Stakes could not have come at a better time.
Being the first to arrive in the mornings and the last to leave is a work philosophy that is paying dividends for Calvin Habib
A first Vodacom Durban July ride or a 21st birthday celebration? That could be the poser facing 20 year old apprentice Denis Schwarz on 6
“We are ‘quietly hopeful’ rather than ‘quietly confident’. There is a subtle difference you know,” laughed Marsh as he chatted to the Sporting Post from the Maldives before flying out for the four hour flight to Dubai on Tuesday evening.
The life of a racing photographer is not simply that of a happy snapper leaning against the rails waiting for the next stampeding blaze of colour.
The 42 year old South African born jockey Barend Vorster continued his flying start after just a week in his new home of Australia
Sunday 3 June 2018 feels like a bizarre freak blur nine months down the line as the top jockey chats to the Sporting Post from his home at Waterfall Country Village
The Drakenstein Stud team can look back on a Cape Summer Season with pride and a sense of outstanding achievement as leaders of a royal pack.
On Sunday, the 50 year old Sean Gerard Tarry joined a select group of professionals to saddle 2000 winners
In the late 80s, South African breeders were highly skeptical of sons of Mr Prospector. The main criticism was that he was ‘a dirt stallion’ and we race on turf
Alan Greeff’s recent Eastern Cape ‘Triple Crown’ star My Best Shot and the Lucky Houdalakis galloper Musical Score, a 3yo son of Oratorio, and a winner of his last two starts, are the two newbies
